The United States and Canada are interdependent along a number of dimensions, including the two nations’ mutual reliance on shared critical infrastructure. As a result, regulatory efforts aimed at securing critical infrastructure in one nation impact the other, including in the cybersecurity...

On September 22, 2016 Yahoo! Inc. announced that a data breach and theft of information from over 500 million user accounts had taken place during 2014 (the largest data breach ever at the time), likely including names, birthdays, telephone numbers, email addresses, hashed passwords, and, in...

The past two years have marked a turning point in Canada’s cyber defence and security policy. In “Strong, Secure and Engaged,” the Government of Canada called on the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) to adopt a more assertive cyber posture. To implement this policy, the CAF will have to rely...

Over the past 30 years, mutual funds have become the dominant vehicle through which individual investors prepare for retirement via defined contribution plans. Further, money market mutual funds, which hold $2.7 trillion as of September 2013, are now a major part of the cash economy in the U.S....

From posting photos and videos to tracking physical activity, apps can do almost anything, but while they may seem like harmless fun, they may also pose a threat to personal data and national security. This paper compares the different responses of the United States, Canada and Germany to data...